Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality Engineering

✍ Scribed by Hoang Pham

• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 346
• Series: Series on Quality, Reliability & Engineering Statistics, V. 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents recent research in reliability and quality theory and its applications by many leading experts in the field. The subjects covered include reliability optimization, software reliability, maintenance, quality engineering, system reliability, Monte Carlo simulation, tolerance design optimization, manufacturing system estimation, neural networks, software quality assessment, optimization design of life tests, software quality, reliability-centred maintenance, multivariate control chart, methodology for measurement of test effectiveness, imperfect preventive maintenance, Markovian reliability modelling, accelerated life testing, and system availability assessment. The book should serve as a reference for postgraduate students and should also prove useful for practitioners and researchers in reliability and quality engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
SERIES IN QUALITY, RELIABILITY & ENGINEERING STATISTICS......Page 3
RECENT ADVANCES IN RELIABILITY AND QUALITY ENGINEERING......Page 4
©......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 8
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 12
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 14
CONTENTS......Page 16
1 CONTROL CHARTS FOR DATA HAVING A SYMMETRICAL DISTRIBUTION WITH A POSITIVE KURTOSIS......Page 18
2 A SOFTWARE RELIABILITY MODEL WITH TESTING COVERAGE AND IMPERFECT DEBUGGING......Page 34
3 COST ALLOCATION FOR SOFTWARE RELIABILITY......Page 50
4 GENERAL RELIABILITY TEST PLANS FOR ONE-SHOT DEVICES......Page 68
5 MULTIVARIATE CONTROL CHART......Page 78
6 OPTIMAL PREPAREDNESS MAINTENANCE OF MULTI-UNIT SYSTEMS WITH IMPERFECT MAINTENANCE AND ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE......Page 92
7 ESTIMATION OF SYSTEM RELIABILITY BY VARIATIONALLY PROCESSED MONTE CARLO SIMULATION......Page 110
8 A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO THE OPTIMAL POLICY UNDER IMPERFECT PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE MODELS......Page 140
9 DESIGN OF LIFE TESTS BASED ON MULTI-STAGE DECISION PROCESS......Page 154
10 RELIABILITY CENTERED MAINTENANCE FOR LIGHT RAIL EQUIPMENT......Page 170
11 INCORPORATING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCEPTS WITH TOLERANCE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION MODEL......Page 186
12 MARKOVIAN RELIABILITY MODELING FOR SOFTWARE SAFETY/AVAILABILITY MEASUREMENT......Page 198
13 GROUP CONTROL CHARTS WITH VARIABLE STREAM AND SAMPLE SIZES......Page 220
14 A METHODOLOGY FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF TEST EFFECTIVENESS......Page 232
15 MODELING SOFTWARE QUALITY WITH CLASSIFICATION TREES......Page 264
16 HIGHLY RELIABLE SYSTEMS: DESIGNING SOFTWARE FOR IMPROVED ASSESSMENT......Page 288
17 MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ESTIMATION USING NEURAL NETWORK MODELS......Page 308
18 A DETERMINISTIC SELECTIVE MAINTENANCE MODEL FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS......Page 328
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 342
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 344
Back......Page 346